Centers & Intellectual Life

Throughout the year, NYU Law’s centers host lectures, conferences, and workshops and publish reports that contribute to some of the most urgent discussions surrounding criminal justice today. Students interested in constitutional rights, corporate misconduct, prosecution, national security, and other areas that intersect with criminal law have the opportunity to hear from and meet with legal academics, practitioners, and members of private and public institutions whose decisions impact the field:

The Brennan Center for Justiceis a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our systems of democracy and justice.

The Center on Law and Security is a non-partisan multidisciplinary research institute established in 2003 to focus on cultivating an informed dialogue and conducting groundbreaking research on the most important national security, legal, and strategic issues of the post-9/11 era.

Just Securityis an online forum for the rigorous analysis of US national security law and policy that aims to promote principled and pragmatic solutions to national security problems that decision-makers face. It is based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law.

The Policing Project is dedicated to strengthening policing through democratic governance. It is working with criminal justice experts, community members, the police, and many others to write model rules and policies for policing.